School of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Effects of terrorism news on readers of newspapers
(Academic Research International, 2013)The media plays an important role in giving the masses information about terrorism. Many developing countries have not in the past had many acts of terrorism that originated directly from those countries and for a long ... -
Socio-cultural Dynamics of Displacement in Adichie’s Novels
(Imperial journal of interdisciplinary research, 2018)Displacement is an all-embracing experience that has attracted global interest. Post-colonial countries in Africa and beyond are grappling with this experience. Literary discourse is alive to the socio-cultural dimensions ... -
Sigendni Luo (Luo proverbs) as Communication Intervention Tool in the Fight against HIV/AIDS among the Luo of Western Kenya
(THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND HEALTH, 2015)In Kenya, HIV/AIDS information and skills dissemination has been mainly through modern communication systems, such as the use of mass media — television, radio, internet, newspapers, and leaflets more than indigenous modes ... -
Mabadiliko katika Umbo la Ushairi na Athari zake katika Ushairi wa Kiswahili
(Academic Journals, 2008)Mwanadamu amejaribu kwa vyovyote vile kuvumbua na kunyumbua mambo mapya ambayo yataleta mvuto na kupimia akili yake kiubunifu katika hali ya kutaka kutangamana zaidi na binadamu mwenzake au kutaka kuelewa zaidi ulimwengu ... -
A failed romance: reading masculinity and love in David Karanja's The Girl was Mine
(Sabinet, 2005)Popular art is not just about entertainment, and this paper explores some of the pertinent issues that one genre of popular fiction, romance, signals. Using the novel The Girl was Mine as a backdrop, the paper concentrates ... -
Inscribing memory, healing a nation: post-election violence and the search for truth and justice in Kenya Burning
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)The violence in the wake of the Kenya general elections in December 2007 found one of its most profoundly haunting, provocative and creative expressions in a photographic text called Kenya Burning. This article renders a ... -
Face threatening acts and standing Orders:‘politeness’ or ‘politics’ in the question time discussions of the Kenyan Parliament
(Journal of Pan African Studies, 2011)This discussion attempts a pragmatics analysis of Kiswahili literary political discourse. Specific examples will be drawn from poetic texts; Chembe cha Moyo by Alamin Mazrui (1988), Sauti ya Dhiki by Abdilatif Abdala (1973) ... -
Wende Luo (Luo Songs) as an intervention tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS among the Luo of Western Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2011)HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa tend to value literacy or Eurocentric communication approaches such as brochures, posters, radio, newspapers and television more than indigenous modes of communication strategies such as ... -
Versions of truth and collective memory: The quest for forgiveness and healing in the context of Kenya's postelection violence
(Indiana University Press, 2012)The Truth, Justice and reconciliation Commission (TJrC) in Kenya was set up in the aftermath of the 2007/8 postelection violence with the mandate of providing a platform for those who had experienced political injustices. ... -
A Portrait Subverting the Normative Gender Identity
(Masaimara university, 2018)Autobiographical discourses written by women globally in their perceptions indicate that women are struggling to be given an equal playing field in academia and politics. The paper looks at a portrait of the Legacy of ... -
The Media, Ethnicity and Regional Development in the Lake Victoria Basin
(J Mass Commun Journalism, 2012)This article discusses how the mass media has been able to assist national and regional development. The concepts of media, ethnicity, and regional development are discussed as critical elements that influence regional ... -
Prospects and Challenges of Teaching and Learning Musics of the World's Cultures: An African Perspective
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DYNAMICS IN CANDIDATES’PREFERENCE CHOICES AT THE KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (KCSE) MUSIC PRACTICAL EXAMINATION
(PROBLEMS IN MUSIC PEDAGOGY, 2010)Most studies have used the element of listening response to musical stimuli to determine music preferences of the various groups studied. In this study however, the term preference is used to mean the art of choosing one ... -
Injecting the African spirit of humanity into teaching, learning and assessment of musical arts in the modern classroom
(Routledge, 2014)African music scholars are currently grappling with the challenges of refocusing musical arts based on indigenous knowledge for classroom practice as well as developing Africa-sensed musical arts curricula that use ... -
Forms of Intimate Partner Violence among Women in the Informal Sector in Nakuru Municipality, Kenya
(International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, 2014-10-01)Different forms of Intimate Partner violence are experienced in various cultures and affect people across societies irrespective of their economic status. Similar experiences have also been reported in Kenya as shown by ... -
Indigenous Music for Classroom Practice: A Process of Building or Burning Bridges?
(ISME Commission on Research, 2014)The purpose of the study was to foster multicultural perspectives in teaching traditional Brazilian Choro music through class instruction to a particular group of American university music students. The theoretical and ... -
Influence of intimate partner violence (IPV) on women's productive work in the informal sector in Nakuru municipality, Kenya
(International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, 2016-02-01)Globally, intimate partner violence is experienced in various cultures and affects people across societies irrespective of their economic status. This is also the case in Sub-Saharan Africa. Kenya is reported to show an ... -
Africa in the Debt Yoke: The Mission of the Church
(University Press of Florida, 1993-10-01)This book, the very first of its kind to be published in Kenya, is the church's response to the debt crisis in Africa. It is partly a result of the inspiration of three conferences organized by the church in Africa. These ... -
HOW TO INTERGRATE THE AFFECTIVE DIMENSION IN THE TEACHING OF FRENCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN KENYA
(2020-08-08)Learning a language can be a complicated affair, particularly when the language is foreign and learning takes place in an exolingual context. The teacher of a foreign language in a multilingual context such as Kenya has ... -
Phonétique et didactique du Fle: cas de confusion des sons chez les apprenants de FLE kenyans
(IFRA-Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique, 2014-09-01)Cet article a pour objet le rôle joué par la phonétique en classe de français langue étrangère (FLE). Il est unanimement connu et reconnu que les apprenants qui s’adonnent à l’apprentissage d’une langue vivante étrangère ...